An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5920-00-486-8822
NSN 5945-01-411-4989
NSN 6650-01-559-7635
NSN 5996-00-338-4022
NSN 5996-01-135-4989
NSN 6320-01-452-2394
NSN 5996-00-097-8378
NSN 6610-00-633-4338
NSN 6150-01-649-7924
NSN 5935-00-284-8306
NSN 7035-01-499-0680
NSN 5950-00-285-6419